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 Liberal Democracy is basically the weaponisation of NPCs by the parasite class against the productive class. 

Indoctrinate people from childhood through their early 20s with statism, reinforce approved narratives via M5M, frame the Overton window between two narrow poles of statist authoritarianism, quash any dissent that arises and impose censorship, then pretend like all the policy enacted is simply the will of the people regardless of how few actually support any of it.

Those able to break free of the programming see it for what it is but are powerless to do anything against the mindless masses who prefer to bicker over which colour ties the authoritarians are going to wear whilst they loot the treasury. The parasites are happy because no-one challenges their actual power and they’ll be gone from office by the time their shenanigans are revealed whilst the productive class simply tries to keep pace with the ever-eroding purchasing power being siphoned away through inflation rending them unable to focus on removing the cancer.

It’s every bit as unsustainable as the Soviet Union was but we tell ourselves we have ‘freedom’ which merely obfuscates what percentage slave you are to the State under the illusion of having a say with your vote.

It took 150 years to come up with better money in #Bitcoin, it’s time we came up with a better way of organising ourselves than giving leeches with a monopoly on violence all the power. nostr:note1kwu7jz66nye6el0f8kmkcnajkr0ztyk9xuyrltqr7za5656j7yvqad6z6d